The NFL and college football will once again go head-to-head on a Saturday in December, as two College Football Playoff games will be played simultaneously with NFL games.<\/p>\n
The 2026-27 College Football Playoff schedule was unveiled today, and three semifinal games will be played on Saturday, December 19, a date when the NFL has already announced two Week 15 games of its own.<\/p>\n
The College Football Playoff starts on Friday, December 18, when no NFL games are scheduled. But then the College Football Playoff plays three more games on Saturday, December 19: One game at noon ET, one game at 3:30 and one game at 7:30.<\/p>\n
The two later games will conflict with the NFL\u2019s Week 15 schedule, which features the Seahawks facing the Eagles at 4 p.m. and the Bears facing the Bills at 7:20.<\/p>\n
The NFL and NCAA have been going to head to head on a Saturday in December since the College Football Playoff expanded to 12 teams two years ago. The NFL games have consistently drawn higher ratings than the college games.<\/p>\n
This year the two college football games going head-to-head with the NFL will air on TNT, while the NFL games will air on Fox and CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL and college football will once again go head-to-head on a Saturday in December, as two College…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-678557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}